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Filmaster

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Filmaster lets you discover movies and shows you’ll love and play them instantly on your TV. It no longer matters whether it’s a live show, a Netflix movie, or a YouTube video­—simply switch on your TV and discover the unlimited world of video tuned especially for you!

The Filmaster platform makes TV both personal and social. Your TV will know what you want to watch based on your tastes, current mood, recommendations from friends, and watching trends in the entire network.

Filmaster also empowers content providers by enabling them to target viewership, increase viewer engagement, and receive analytics about viewer behavior. People will watch more if they feel like better content is available and if they can share the experience with others.

Filmaster founders are:

• Jakub is the tech leach. He’s a maths and computer science student on Warsaw University and a winner of math and programming olympiads. He designed and implemented the recommendation engine and is responsible for the algorithms.
• Pawel is the product manager, a CSS god and usability expert. Before joining Filmaster he worked as Unit Leader Front-End for F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
• Borys is the CEO of Filmaster. Worked in IT since 2002, most recently as a consultant for Deutsche Bank in London. Owner of OSnews.pl, a successful (profitable in a month after release) citizen journalism startup. Filmaster is his second venture.

Current achievements include:

• Selected as one of 10 most disruptive TV startups by MIPCube: http://www.mipworld.com/en/mipcube/competitions/mipcube-lab/
• Partner of over 20 movie festivals and cinemas in Poland and UK

Milestones

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• 
  Filmaster added Paweł Czerski as Product Manager. (9/1/10)
  Posted 7/10/11 at 9:27pm
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  Filmaster added Jakub Tlałka as Tech Lead. (9/1/10)
  Posted 7/10/11 at 2:05pm
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  Filmaster added Krzysztof Kowalczyk as Advisor. (3/4/11)
  Posted 3/23/11 at 10:24pm
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  Filmaster added Borys Musielak as CEO. (9/1/10)
  Posted 10/26/10 at 1:53pm
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  Filmaster received $273k (€191k) in Seed funding. (7/6/11)
  Posted 10/26/10 at 1:53pm via filmaster.com
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  Filmaster — Filmaster for iPhone launched during SXSW Interactive. (3/14/11)
  Posted 3/17/11 at 4:21pm via time.com

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Screenshots

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Above: Filmaster.com
Uploaded: 10/28/10

Sources

1. HackFwd invests $250k USD in Filmaster (blog.filmaster.com) [edit]
Filmaster App Makes Moviegoing More Social (techland.time.com) [edit]